In China, a digital avatar can now be created for less than $1,000 to sell goods on Taobao, Douyin, Kuaishou and other sites around the clock.
A normal bot can simply talk about the product. A more advanced one can even respond to comments. A digital cast is made from a live streamer, and the latter is frightened. After all, smart dipfakes have already begun to take away people's jobs. There are entire farms of streamers in China, selling billions of dollars worth of merchandise. But brands need to train them, give them equipment and pay their salaries. And the live streamers also need to sleep, rest and eat when dipfake is working around the clock.
Now all of this fits into a modest thousand dollars. Selebrities and popular bloggers are not yet replaced, but ordinary people are quite. However, the problem is larger than that. As MIT writes, the issue of digital workers is at the state level in China. Streaming is just the first step, and developers have big plans. Silicon Intelligence alone is going to create 100 million (!) AI jobs by 2025.
Given the already high unemployment among Chinese youth, now even earning money on social networks is under threat. And just yesterday it was one of the few options.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 8.3 ms ] threadA normal bot can simply talk about the product. A more advanced one can even respond to comments. A digital cast is made from a live streamer, and the latter is frightened. After all, smart dipfakes have already begun to take away people's jobs. There are entire farms of streamers in China, selling billions of dollars worth of merchandise. But brands need to train them, give them equipment and pay their salaries. And the live streamers also need to sleep, rest and eat when dipfake is working around the clock.
Now all of this fits into a modest thousand dollars. Selebrities and popular bloggers are not yet replaced, but ordinary people are quite. However, the problem is larger than that. As MIT writes, the issue of digital workers is at the state level in China. Streaming is just the first step, and developers have big plans. Silicon Intelligence alone is going to create 100 million (!) AI jobs by 2025.
Given the already high unemployment among Chinese youth, now even earning money on social networks is under threat. And just yesterday it was one of the few options.